Stories from the Hospital....

First a note.  I realize that I put SEGA in my posts and not SAGA .... I went back and changed it but I'm frankly too lazy to take new screen shots and edit them out of names so ... you'll have to deal if you are reading this....

I blame the drugs I was on in the hospital .... it made my Grammerish Nazi mind numb ... I am not PERFECT either ... ever.... and get dinged by other Grammer Nazis lol .... 

SO if you didn't know I have spent many many days in the hospital the last two months ...practically a whole month in the hospital...  it's just ... yeah....

So my first stay I had a private room all to myself with an amazing view ...
Second stay I had a roommate and while mildly amused and annoyed - she ended up growing on me.  (Older lady who was really scared and thought she was going to die when she came in - and we both came in about the same time)
Third stay - I had a roommate - that roommate died.  I'm pretty positive ... then I got moved to a private room with lots of room... and the water pipe was leaking ... and it was determined that there was an effing hole in the pipe... so I got moved again....  but funny enough - I got moved again ... BUT ... I ended up in my same room where the roommate died and this time I got an awesome roommate.... then she got discharged ... and then I got another older lady with a bad UTI and then she left and I got Ms. Crazy-Pants... 


this new roommate is weird
her husband and daughter left her and she has no idea where they went
like they moved
she doesn't know where they were
Wtf
even
like where they were living/staying
That's weird...
She hasn't fallen recently but has a broken hip (and a broken femur) ....
Isn't the femur in the leg?
Yeah
Wtf
The nurse said her name
And she goes "I don't know how you guys got those names"
"I didn't give them to anyone"
Wow that's nodd
Odd
And she asked what she's called,  and she says Connie
Then 3 minutes later she says "Oh I go by Connie too"
?
Omg wrong IM boys lololol
Hmmm
She says "I don't remember anything"
She doesn't know the 3 medications she takes
Wow
She doesn't know her ex husband's phone number
Nothing
Wow
What an odd thing
She just said she tripped and that's how she broke her hip
Isn't that a fall?
Oh yes.... femur is the thigh bone
Umm yeah
Her diagnosis is "femur break"
She says she split her thigh bone in half
Woah
Nonono
She says she split her hip in half
Ohhh
Umm
She says she broke her hip
Maybe she forgot her body parts too
Maybe..??
Lololol

that twat just asked me to move her bed pan
Wtf
I said "I can't move your bed pan" she goes "I was told someone in here needs to move the bed pan, who is that going to be?"  I said "A nurse or a CNA, I'm also a patient" "Well don't get mad at me"  then stop talking to me you twat
and asking me to do stuff
and accusing me of having your wallet and wheelchair (earlier today)


HELLO ... is ANYONE out THERE?
Nurse comes in: "You cannot yell, you have to use your nurse button" they tell her for the 300th time....
Roommate: It doesn't work (or I can't find it, when it's right next to her) ....
Nurse: "You have a roommate and other people can hear you, you have to use the nurse button" they show her how to use it for the 300th time.
(5 minutes later) .. "HELLO!!! HELP!!!"

BTW - she wanted to know if everything was okay - that's it.

30 seconds after the nurse leaves after wanting to know if everything is okay...

HELLO!! ANYONE OUT THERE?? I HAVE TO GO TO THE BATHROOM .....

OMG .... she makes great story material but let me tell you ... nope... nope on all the rest of it....

She just said "I'm from Washington State - I don't even know how I got here"
the nurse lookkkkkkkked at her and goes....  "you are in Washington"
Lol


she needs constant attention
she can't find her nurse button that's RIGHT NEXT to her
she yells HELLO and HELP every few minutes
to get the attention of staff
she's got a broken hip - which she said she didn't fall recently but then said she thinks she tripped and that's how it happened ...ummmmmm

She was on the phone with I think the kitchen basically telling them that she's being held hostage and she wants to leave and no one will let her leave.  She also doesn't believe she had surgery because she doesn't have any "surgery stuff" on her.  And she's harassing EVERYONE who comes in here.  My doctor came in and she was demanding to know why she couldn't leave....  it's gonna be a day ....guess she has dementia and she's an alcoholic ....she slept most of yesterday and last night ....she had trouble waking up this morning and basically all that happened in the last ....er... hour ... the call to the kitchen was shocking - I actually thought she called 911
Lol

this twat just accused me of having her wallet
and then she said her wheelchair was over here and asked me to take it to her
I told her I don't have any of her stuff
Omg
and then she started talking about popcorn and how she needs to find her popcorn and she doesn't know where she got it
Cray cray
these nurses just don't understand how bat shit crazy she is
Charlene - one of the CNAs that I really like ...
she won't stay late because of this chick
now she's pulled some poor CNA in here and told him that someone brought her in here and laid her down but she's not supposed to be here
I could literally just write about this bitch and entertain the world

IGNORE THE UNLE - I was probably going to write something else but .... got sidetracked 

I went for a walk - came back to kind rearrange my small space because I no longer have to worry about the IV pole - I pressed the button for the nurse expecting the CNA that is taking care of me to come in but I guess she left so i got this cranky bitch ..

Okay

so I asked her if I had to use the red wipes (the surgical wipes you have to "wash" with before surgery) or if I could just use the blue ones cuz I wanted to clean up a bit and change my clothes ... and I asked her for a white hospital bag to put my dirty clothes in... I also asked if she could move the bed over enough so I could fit the walker over on the side so I could get to it better and so she does - then she tells me once my roommate comes back I can't have the bed that far over and that it'll have to be moved back.  I said "what's the point then?"  She goes "exactly" but she had already moved it over .

I told her to put it back then ... even though my roommate can't get out of bed ..  she goes "why not?"  I said "she broke her hip" .... then she said "that's if she even comes back,,"  WTF wouldn't she?  She's homeless.  So I said "even if she doesn't come back I'll still get a new roommate so it's pointless,,," she moved the bed "back" and I reminded her about the bath wipes and the bag - she gives me the exasperated sigh I love so  much that lets you know that you are taking up too much air from the rest of the human race and she says "does it have to be now?  I need to finish my vitals: .....

I told her not to worry about it - I had cold wipes and a grocery bag.  She left and hasn't come back

oh and the same twat CNA from yesterday .... I had my light on and the roommate had her light on... she came in here and was taking care of the roommates redonk needs and then she came over and turned off my light while she was on the phone about the roommate.... and when she was done, she left.  She didn't even ask me what I needed....

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so I didn't tell you the story from the ER on Friday - last Friday of course
so we were at the ER waiting to be seen for about 5 1/2 hours

anyway - there was this couple there as long as us

the woman was a nurse, knew that just from bits and pieces - and a nurse here even ...

so this guy came in with two kids - one to be seen .. and they were sitting there and sitting there - then this woman comes in and sits by the dad and I can only assume it's his wife, and she brought two more kids..

so she sits by my mom and I but like across from her husband and this couple

and she starts asking the woman to the couple questions (the mom does) ...

and woman and mom introduce themselves - they were actually talking football at first ... nurse (woman) had a Seahawks bag ...

so they are chit chatting and then the mom starts to ask the husband questions ....

and this didn't sit well

I actually heard him say something like "you can talk to her all you want, she can share what she wants but I'm more private"

but she continues to ask him stuff

"are you worried about your wife?"

like wtf lady ....

then she keeps asking him shit

and you can tell he's getting very very annoyed

and then she asks "do you have kids" and the guy goes "that's not going to make her feel any better..." and shortly after - Nurse gets up and says she needs to get some air

and I thought - that's a woman going through fertility issues or has had loss or something .... and I thought she must have recently had a miscarriage or something

so then I realize when she came back she didn't go back to her seat

her husband got up and she checked out cuz they'd been waiting 4 hours and all that ....

and I thought that the lady hit a nerve and really thought that the nurse had a loss recently
well she ended up being my nurse tonight...

so anyway - she ended up being my nurse for a little while tonight and sure as shit ... she had a stillborn baby last year  😞  of course I told her about my bestfriend and baby J born with his wings and all my miscarriages ... and my fertility issues

Funny Story: How Calahan Got His Name.....

The beginning of the blog is going to be a bit.....  serious.  The funny story isn't until the end of this.

I distinctly remember sitting in the little TV nook with my mom, seeing on TV, about this little boy named Adam being kidnapped from the SEARS store in Hollywood, FL.  That his mom was in another department and had let six year old Adam watch a group of boys playing a video game.

Adam was taken, his mother, Reve, was terrified, and Adam's story became the first really well known case of it's kid.  Yes, other kidnapped children had made headlines before, but mostly ransom cases and cases that didn't make families feel like ....  THIS could HAPPEN to THEM ....

Adam's case certainly made families feel as if .....  this COULD happen to them....  this was a regular family, in a regular Sears store ....

Reve Walsh was running errands on July 27, 1981 and had her son Adam with her. She was also pregnant with Meghan at the time.  They stopped at the mall and went into Sears.  There was a group of boys that was playing a video game and six-year-old Adam stopped to watch them, so Reve let him stay there to watch while she ran to the lamp department quick.  She wasn't gone but 5 maybe 10 minutes and when she went back, all the boys were gone - including Adam. Turned out a  teenage security guard had kicked all the boys out and so Adam was outside the store without his mom knowing.  Reve panicked, of course, not being able to find him and a search started for Adam. 

Sadly it was too late.  Someone had already snatched Adam up. 

** A note here.  When a child is missing in a store, they now call a "CODE ADAM" which alerts the staff to lock down the store until a full search is competed.   The term "CODE ADAM" was inspired by Adam Walsh and his story.

Of course, when John Walsh found out, he and Reve did everything they could do and could think of in order to try to find Adam and bring him home safely.  John found himself frustrated that they couldn't seem to get the news out faster and better than what was happening. 

Adam’s parents launched a massive hunt for their son; however, on August 10, 1981, his severed head was discovered by two fishermen in a drainage canal in Vero Beach, Florida, some 100 miles from Hollywood. His body was never found.

When all this happened, when Adam was kidnapped, I had just turned 5 years old.  I was around the same age as Adam and it was scary. 

The image of the little boy with his bat haunts me....

Anyway - there was a made-for-TV movie about Adam's kidnapping, and finding his head, and the horror of it all.  I remember little sister Meghan being born in the movie (dramatization not the real birth) and feeling hope for them.  But I was just a little kid. 

There was a second movie released.  "Adam's Song Continues" and it was about the first movie being on TV. It was about John's new passion - he was battling hard for missing children and finding ways to make it more effective to get the word out when a child is missing.  It was about him starting the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.  At the end of the movie, Reve and John's third child is born.   Before I get to all that though .... let me finish this....

John and Reve Walsh has done some amazing things.  The Walsh's turned their grief into action, John Walsh quickly became a nationally recognized leader in the push for victims' rights.

In 1987, FOX contacted John about hosting a groundbreaking new reality show designed to track down the country's most notorious and dangerous fugitives.  By using tools like profiling the criminals, then sharing their cases to a national audience. The show was called America's Most Wanted and using it as his catapult for finding justice, John felt satisfaction in the fact that he could now bring some sort of closure that he had never found by bringing some sort of justice to other victims of violent crimes.



Ottis Toole, the prime suspect in the murder of Adam was never charged with the case due to lack of evidence.  He confessed to it, knew some details that hadn't been released to the public, but there were things in his confession that definitely were not true also.    Then he recanted his confession only to later confess again and recant again. 

Ottis Tool never was charged.  He died in prison while he was serving a life sentence for other crimes, including murder.  He and his partner, Henry Lucas, had traveled around on a killing spree.  Although in the initial confession, Ottis Toole said that Henry was involved in Adam's murder, Henry had been in jail at the time and there really isn't any better alibi than that.   This is one of the reasons the police weren't sure if they could "trust" his confession.  But Ottis Toole did know many key things that only the murderer would know ...  so there was some confusion. 

Sadly, without Adam's body, and with-out more evidence, the DA at the time didn't feel he could arrest and try Ottis Toole for the murder of Adam Walsh.  However; in 1996 when O. Toole was on his deathbed - he did make a deathbed confession saying that he had, indeed, murdered Adam Walsh. 

In 2008 - in December - after reviewing the case more, they (the police) determined there was substantial evidence to - enough - to name Ottis Toole as the murderer of Adam Walsh.  Case Closed. 

But is it?  Even thought this has been the long time theory - and the strict belief of John and Reve Walsh, that Toole is guilty....  there are other theories out there.  One includes Jeffery Dahmer and the fact that he was in Florida, in that area, at that time.  It's interesting giving what he would end up doing. 

John has done and accomplished some amazing things in his life.  All in the name of Adam....

• John has testified before Congress and state legislatures more than 55 times on crime, missing children and victims' issues.
• John and Revé worked for the passage of the Missing Children Act of 1982. 
• The Walsh's hard work and determination helped to pass the Missing Children's Assistance Act of 1984,
• which created National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC). NCMEC now serves as the national clearinghouse for information on missing children and the prevention of child victimization.
• Revé Walsh serves on the NCMEC Board of Directors.
• John serves on the Board's Chief Executive Officers Council and National Advisory Board, and acts as a NCMEC spokesperson.
• John is currently advocating a Constitutional Amendment for victims' rights.
• The Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act is a federal statute that was signed into law on July 27, 2006, and adds guild lines for Sex Offenders on the Sex Offender Registry.

He has also had a hand in helping to pass or supporting other laws that the parents of other missing and murdered children had fought for - like Katie's Law and the Amber Alert System. 

John has been honored by law enforcement agencies around the country.

• 1988 US Marshals Man Of The Year award.
• 2000 FBI Man of the Year award.
• A Special Recognition Award by the US Attorney General—the only private citizen ever to receive this honor.
• Honors in the Rose Garden at The White House, four times by three presidents: Clinton, Bush (Sr.), and Reagan (twice).

John is also the author of three best-selling books, including Tears of Rage (1997), No Mercy (1998), and Public Enemies (2001).

The man is certainly one of my heroes ...  truly.  The way he took on the death of Adam and did so much good with it - and CONTINUES to do so much good with ... it's amazing. 

The John Walsh Family: Callahan, John, Meghan, Reve, and Hayden.

So here comes the funny story .......  

So while I was pregnant ....  we had picked out the name Caleb Bryce.  For some reason that name - in my ex husband's head - Caleb Bryce was too "feminine" for him ....  so I had to go on the hunt for another name and I wanted an Irish name...

So I was on bedrest at that point ... laying on the couch watching VHS movies we had taped off TV.  One of them was "Adam's Song Continues"  and at the end of the movie John and Reve's third child is born and they named him Callahan Adam Walsh .... and I thought, ooooooooh Callahan .... I like Callahan ...

So I wrote it down....  Callahan/Calahan ....  and I liked the one L version better because it looked like a name and not a surname. 

So Calahan it ended up being ..... 

So I'm watching TV the other night and there comes up a preview - John's new tv show.  "In Pursuit with John Walsh."  This will be airing on ID - btw - if anyone is interested. 

So during the preview I see this kid and it's Callahan - John's son and I'm all.... "HOLY SHIT!!! That's the guy who Calahan got named after!"  So I hollered for Cal and Tina to come in here - and I showed him and I was like.....  WOW .... (turns head to the side) .... he kinda looks like you! LOL ...

(Pictures of the TV during the preview) 

Just for shits & giggles....  Callahan (Walsh) and Calahan ...  side by side....  LOL

THE END .....

Really ...... Boycott Target?

I have seen these Target bashing posts on FB.  At times, my FB is flooded with them.  With the hashtags ... bye target, and boycott target.  It's stupid, I think.

It's fear and hate, and people are seeing it as a protection thing.

I have seen them one too many times.  I felt the need to put a bunch of facts in one place.  So I made this FB posts ....

I am going to get on my soap box for a moment. I have a few things I want to say ... a few points I want to make.

All this crap about ‪#‎Target‬, and their restroom policies. "Let's SHAME Target, let's boycott Target...." ... Let me point out a few facts.

#1: I was molested as a child, and raped as an adult. You are more likely to be molested and/or raped by someone you know than by some random person in a bathroom. A friend of mine posted this fact this morning, I raised my hand thinking - yep, I'm on that boat too. I loved her status, which follows along the same lines as mine will, and told her I might steal it... although I'm not, I do appreciate her pointing that out and owning ‪#‎hertruth‬. STOP USING THIS AS AN EXCUSE.

#2: As a parent who has children of the opposite sex... I have taken my sons into the women's bathroom more times than I can count. I have changed their diapers, I have taken them into stalls. This is no different than a dad taking his daughters in the men's bathroom. I haven't ever felt wronged, or shamed for doing this. I have taken them into the bathroom with me until I felt comfortable and safe that they would be okay going in the "gender correct" bathroom, where I would sit outside the men's room door, and if needed, I would open that door, and call inside to make sure everything was okay - IF I FELT THE NEED TO. I would apologize to any man I would see, but everyone I have ever had contact with has understood. I recently saw a post by a Dad with a six-year-old daughter shaming Target, about how he can't send her into a woman's rest room by herself. My first thought - "Why are you sending your six year old into a strange bathroom by herself?" Do you allow her to cross the street without holding her hand? Can she call and order pizza on her own too? That might be extreme - but ... I mean come on. I am a concerned mother, at the age of six, my boys couldn't go into the bathroom by themselves without an older brother or their father. (so, reality, not by themselves!) If you are a concerned parent, why are you allowing them to go into the bathroom by themselves when they probably are not strong enough to open those big heavy doors by them-self? (no I am not talking about the stall doors.)

#3: You say you are concerned about pedophiles and molesters being able to go into the restroom with your DAUGHTERS - but in reality, they've been going into the bathrooms with your sons forever and that never concerned you. (I just shared a graphic about this.) - Also see point #7.

#4: Maybe you would like to separate the LGBT community - make them use their "own" bathrooms - so everyone is safe from them. Would that be right? It's okay to separate the LGBT community, and segregate them - but you believe that everyone of every skin color is equal because despite skin color, everyone is just a person. We're all made the same. Well.... you are right, we are. This includes the LGBT community. They are no different than anyone else. They still bleed the same. They get the same illnesses we do. They long for family and love and being accepted and heard, just like everyone else. I bet you used the ‪#‎BlackLivesMatter‬ hashtag? How is that ANY different? I have never used that hashtag, until this moment. Because it doesn't matter WHO you are, ‪#‎ALLlivesMatter‬! That's right... ALL of them.

#5: But the bible says...... please, stop right there. I thought God teaches tolerance and acceptance, that everyone should be forgiven and loved! But the Bible says..... ah, no..stop again. I don't care what the books of the Bible say. The thing I was taught in my Christian church was that GOD TEACHES TOLERANCE and everything else I just said. SO where is your tolerance? Where is your acceptance? We are all God's children... or not? There were men who had multiple wives in the Bible, and yet you say that true marriage is between ONE man and ONE woman, and all these men who have multiple wives are breaking the law. Yes some are, some are not, some are just following their religion, some have consensual relationships with multiple "wives" where all parties are knowledgeable and agreeable ... and some do break the laws and take 12 year olds as wives (however this was done back in the Bible too)... so what about these people in the Bible who had multiple wives? Stop choosing which parts of the Bible are acceptable, and which are not - to fit your religious beliefs. If you want to have your religious beliefs, that is fine. I don't judge you for them, anymore then you should judge someone else for THEIR religious beliefs. Jesus was Jewish, and yet people of many faiths believe in his teaching - his teaching of love and mercy, how only God should decide the fate of his flock, etc and so on. The Bible is a book that can be interpreted. The Bible, most important, is exactly what it means to YOU, and that's what is important.

#6: If a person who looked like a man, with facial hair and a deep voice walked into a women's room to use the toilet - people would be shocked and gasp. But the way a lot of people are saying what the law means - of course - HE would have to walk into the WOMEN'S BATHROOM because he has a vagina - or was born with female DNA. If a woman, with large breasts, full make-up, long hair, tight shorts or a short skirt - walked into a Men's room - guys would most likely react somehow - most women think they'd probably whistle or cat-call, women who may see it may go "OMGosh that SLUT! She's probably going in there to have sex with some guy." Women probably wouldn't be happy, especially if their boyfriend or husband was in there... some men might not be too happy either ... however, this woman has a penis and was born with male DNA. This LAW is to ALLOW ... THESE.... people who IDENTIFY as being a MAN or a WOMAN to use the bathroom of the gender that they identify with.

#7: People are mostly making this about MEN going into WOMEN'S bathroom because they want to rape or molest the females of various ages. Because THEY are sicko freaks who cannot control themselves. The TRUTH is - these people who commit sexual crimes are MORE LIKELY to NOT draw ATTENTION to themselves, they long to fit in and go UN-NOTICED so they can CONTINUE to commit their crimes. Let's also address the fact that WOMEN ARE GUILTY OF COMMITTING THESE CRIMES ALSO. It is NOT JUST MEN. So if you use a public bathroom, with people you do not KNOW - you are ALWAYS running a risk of this type of crime happening. Women steal little girls, kidnapping them. Men steal little boys, kidnapping them. Women molest girls, Men molest boys. What about those factors? How are you going to protect your children against that? YOU ARE SO WORRIED about perverted males going into women's bathrooms, "Let's protect our WOMEN and DAUGHTERS ..." ... if they would do that - they would do that without the law. And what about our DAUGHTERS and WOMEN who are with in the LGBT community? What about our SONS who are Transgender? What about protecting them???

I have two gay nieces who are under the age of 18. I have gay friends and probably gay family who haven't expressed such. I love ALL of these people, I want them to be respected and loved and HEARD just as much as everyone else is. They are not LESS, they have rights and feelings. I heart emoticon them all.

If one of my children were to end up in the LGBT community, I would love and support them the SAME WAY I DO NOW. THEY are my children! I would be PROUD of them for being who they are, and not being afraid to say it out loud! I am PROUD of my nieces!! I've told their Mom's so. (one has come out publicly, one has not - I have told the one who came out publicly that I am proud of her!)

I was watching a TV show recently, Marie Osmond was on and she is of one of these religions that is notorious for being LGBT intolerant. She proudly talked about her gay daughter, and when pointed out the religious beliefs, she said that she and her daughter may agree and disagree on several things, however, at the end of the day - THAT is her child, she will love her no matter what.

That is how - I feel - it should be. It's my opinion.

I personally do not care who I pee next two. I have anxiety using a public bathroom - but I pee when I have to pee. I have been known to seek out bathrooms where only one person can go in because I don't like public bathrooms, I would rather relieve myself in private. I am a more modest person. It's who I am. However, if we were to start having gender neutral bathrooms - I would STILL USE THEM. There are stalls that can be gone into - it's not like someone is WATCHING me pull down my pants, and let's face it - you get people who look through the cracks in ANY bathroom. Kids who look under the stall doors because they are curious. That won't change. EVERYONE has to pee, everyone has to poop! If you have a problem washing your hands next to someone of the opposite sex... well, I guess that's your issue. I have issues with spiders, I don't hate on people who love them. I have issues with clowns, if I were to attend a kids party that had clowns, I would have to just suck it up.

It just annoys me when people uses these issues as excuses. IF you don't want to use a bathroom with a man, then I guess you need to ask every female to drop her drawers to make sure she doesn't actually have a penis. Turning that around, other women will be able to ask you to drop your drawers and make sure YOU don't have a penis. But that's a violation of privacy, right?

Making this an issue is taking the privacy away from a lot of people.

The last thing I want to say is that - I have almost, VERY VERY VERY close to .... gone into the men's room to pee because of the LONG LINES at the women's bathroom and how badly I needed to pee. I would have done it, I might have been ashamed, a little, but I would not have been sorry. So much better than peeing your pants.

If you disagree with me - to the point - that YOU feel we can no longer be friends, please feel free to use the UNFRIEND feature. I may not always agree with you, but I have never made that an issue. If this is a point that is drawing the line, I understand. I am not going to debate with you because I believe you have the right to your opinion. Just please, know your facts before you state them as facts.

And then I saw these....

I had also looked at her page and she had posted this ..... said something like "well she said it more eloquently then I had...

Smokey Sunday .....

I am so over this cold.  Soooooooooo over it.  And I just got it.  Kale, whom it started with, is still not feeling well, but he's working tonight - go Kale!  It's his first night of a new job.  Hoping this will last.  It is a good job, one that DB had before - he liked it but his lungs couldn't take the chemicals.  So I hope he can make it all work out for him.

And of course when I get sick it either

A: totally effects me differently
B: hits me harder
C: stays with me so much longer
D: all of the above

And what's even more fun is .... this thought that constantly runs through your head ... "Is this my Fibro/CFS/Psoriasis .... or am I actually sick?"   not that the Fibro/CFS/Psoriasis isn't me "sick" but it's my "normal sick" ...

Mom thinks I'm sick from the smoke from the wildfires.

Apparently this is what I look like sleeping ... sick ....  this is compliments of my husband. (Baby blankets and burp clothes all around me)  I told him sleeping pictures is turnabout is fair play.  Just wait for it.  It'll happen ....

Woke up and figured I'd give the Medusa look a try ..... yep ....

I make this mess look good!  LOL

My Mom thinks I'm sick because all of the smoke in the air from the Washington Wildfires....

The latest Puget Sound Clean Air Agency air quality map shows a number of locations with unhealthy air (reddish dots in the figure).   Green is good.  Yellow is marginal

I'll talk more about that later too .... 

One of my friends on facebook posted this today.  It's her house, her wall, her pictures.  I thought it looks AMAZING.  I want to do it.  It's like...  a game of Tetris ....

The Princess is 19 days today!!!

A day in pictures with the sweet pea ....

Little Seahawks Girl... it's SO BIG on her....

Shila took these of DB an I ....  the last pic, that was to gross her out - LOL - it worked, but she still took it.... ha ha ha....

Nathan goofing around outside, Daddy took these ....

Gallifrey .....

Boys sleeping

Noah getting some time on the computer before he goes to bed....

So there is this thing going on around Facebook - this "find out the origin of your name" thing.  It's obviously random cuz Shila did it herself and got different answers.  But I was just laughing at it.  Did it for everyone in the family.

So - something that's concerning all of us Western Coast peeps is the wildfires... The smoke has definitely reached us over on the Peninsula ....

In this next one....  the top most "Smoke" word ...  we are by the "S" in the word.

This one, we are in the Yellow Area.

You can see the smoke all around the mountains.  Usually you can see them crisp and clear.

This is horribly damaging to our state, to Oregon, to California right now.  I think I even heard that Idaho was hit with some ...  it's BAD.  BAD BAD.  And it's been such a dry summer too.

See ya on the flip side!